Why you need a special image? Isn't installation of a standard and installation of needed packages from feeds sufficient for you? Using standard image makes possible problems simpler to reproduce.

In principle that would be enough : I've some scripts to customize my OPIE environment after the installation (e.g. change config files & and add packages).

But unfortunately kexec-boot does not find the image on the internal ram anymore if I install all packages in one go . It does find the image on the internal ram if I install a small number of packages (about 5); reboot the Zaurus, install the next 5 packages , etc.

I don't know the reason for this behaviour (I already asked on the openembbeded mailing list but did not get a solution for the problem).

That's why I want to have a image that already contains my customizations.

regards

Bernd

utx

May 13 2009, 12:27 PM

QUOTE(BerndS @ May 13 2009, 08:47 PM)

In my-opie-image.bb I added "task-my-opie" to the IMAGE_INSTALL variable:

The result was a working image --but without my added apps ...

I guess that you need to to add task-my-opie to DEPENDS section as well. But I never customized the image.

QUOTE(BerndS @ May 13 2009, 08:47 PM)

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Why you need a special image? Isn't installation of a standard and installation of needed packages from feeds sufficient for you? Using standard image makes possible problems simpler to reproduce.

But unfortunately kexec-boot does not find the image on the internal ram anymore if I install all packages in one go . It does find the image on the internal ram if I install a small number of packages (about 5); reboot the Zaurus, install the next 5 packages , etc.

I don't know the reason for this behaviour (I already asked on the openembbeded mailing list but did not get a solution for the problem).

It sounds like a problem either with JFFS2 filesystem or with kexecboot. But I know nothing about these two.

agosine

Jun 11 2009, 07:11 PM

Hello Bernd. Are you still working on compiling Opie? I am trying to find a copy of 2008.1 and it seems compiling my own is the only way. Any advice?

Hello Bernd. Are you still working on compiling Opie? I am trying to find a copy of 2008.1 and it seems compiling my own is the only way. Any advice?

yes, more or less ... Unfortunately I always get an error if I try to create a new image for 2007.12 or 2008.1. So from time to time I refresh my development tree and do a bitbake opie-image to see if it now works . Until now it did not work

But at this time I do not have the time to investigate why it does not work.